"Insensate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... answers to these questions was like knocking at the door of a tomb; the voice was silent that could reply; there came no answer save the dull, heavy, hollow echo of his own uncertain knock. All was blind, dumb, insensate torpor. No outlook; ...
— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine
... in part, a slave, because he is a living being. This belongs to the definition of life itself. Each creature must bend its back to the lash of its environment. We imagine life without conditions—life free from the pressure of insensate things outside us or within. But such life is the dream of the philosopher. We have never known it. The records of the life we know are full of concessions ...
— The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches • David Starr Jordan
... an insensate trick; but there was so much of the frank manly British boy in Dick Winthorpe that he forgot everything in the fact that big Hickathrift, the man he had known from a child—the great bluff fellow who had carried him in his arms and hundreds of times made him welcome in that ...
— Dick o' the Fens - A Tale of the Great East Swamp • George Manville Fenn
... brother rue, Who in the rout had perished in their sight; And in the coward's cheek of pallid hue Is yet pourtrayed the sad and craven sprite: — Yet, through the fear endured, they far and nigh, Pallid, and silent, and insensate fly. ...
— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto
... the encouragement of globe-trotting be a virtuous action, then certainly Mrs. Stuart Boyd has deserved well of her country. To read her book is to conceive an insensate desire to be off and away on 'the long trail' at all hazards and at all costs.... Mr. Boyd's illustrations add greatly to the interest and charm of the book. There is movement, ...
— A Versailles Christmas-Tide • Mary Stuart Boyd
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